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Why didn't Tanner compete in pipe for the team event thing? He wasn't even up on the course cheering for Torin and Henrick with the rest of the armada team.
 
topic:Traffic_Cone said:
Why didn't Tanner compete in pipe for the team event thing? He wasn't even up on the course cheering for Torin and Henrick with the rest of the armada team.
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He said he got injured and wanted to recover for fwt
 
13973728:Lafam said:
Did you not watch his movie?
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Oh it was a banger for damn sure. Just explain to me why someone would return to a discipline that’s progressed exponentially in the past few years when they already were at the top. The amount of training it would take isn’t worth loosing the cred.
 
13973993:ObjectMocked said:
Oh it was a banger for damn sure. Just explain to me why someone would return to a discipline that’s progressed exponentially in the past few years when they already were at the top. The amount of training it would take isn’t worth loosing the cred.
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"Progressed" in what way? Through the revolutionary invention of butters? It's an honest question. I genuinely don't understand what people are referring to when they talk about how freeskiing has progressed in the last 10 years.

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13974848:LineSkier said:
"Progressed" in what way? Through the revolutionary invention of butters? It's an honest question. I genuinely don't understand what people are referring to when they talk about how freeskiing has progressed in the last 10 years.

**This post was edited on Dec 18th 2018 at 8:18:40pm
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Is this real? Dude the tricks they’re doing in pipe and slope style specifically are way harder than when tanner was in the game. Go educate yourself and watch comps if you’re genuinely interested. Since u asked tho: a single rotation is 360 degrees. Two rotations is a 720. Etc... the bigger the number, the more spin. There are also off axis spins that involve a number of different flips etc. when added together, these components make a complex trick. These tricks have gotten more complex (bigger numbers) since tanner hall was skiing in competitions that are based on the complexity and difficulty of the tricks performed. For example, a competition ten years ago had smaller numbers than today.... hope you can get this through your head. I know it’s a tough one.
 
I'm sure he is still attending the Freeride World Tour this season? I have not seen him compete in any comps in like 7 years, the FWT gave him a wildcard invite
 
13974858:ObjectMocked said:
Is this real? Dude the tricks they’re doing in pipe and slope style specifically are way harder than when tanner was in the game. Go educate yourself and watch comps if you’re genuinely interested. Since u asked tho: a single rotation is 360 degrees. Two rotations is a 720. Etc... the bigger the number, the more spin. There are also off axis spins that involve a number of different flips etc. when added together, these components make a complex trick. These tricks have gotten more complex (bigger numbers) since tanner hall was skiing in competitions that are based on the complexity and difficulty of the tricks performed. For example, a competition ten years ago had smaller numbers than today.... hope you can get this through your head. I know it’s a tough one.
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On one hand I appreciate the allure of doing something no one has done before. On the other hand, what you're describing is the kind of modestly incremental "progress" that doesn't get me out of bed in the morning, in the same way that a golfer getting "progressively" closer to 18 holes in one doesn't interest me. Shrug.

Thanks for being an asshole about it, though.
 
13973717:CT_CREW said:
Did you see the street spots he was hitting? Id say there was a good chance he was a bit banged up.
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What have I missed?!

Who cares though. Dew tour is for the kids. Will be amazing watching him on the FWT
 
13974879:LineSkier said:
On one hand I appreciate the allure of doing something no one has done before. On the other hand, what you're describing is the kind of modestly incremental "progress" that doesn't get me out of bed in the morning, in the same way that a golfer getting "progressively" closer to 18 holes in one doesn't interest me. Shrug.

Thanks for being an asshole about it, though.
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what would you consider progress then? or how would you describe the changes in tricks being done over the last 10 years?
 
The names on screen were displayed with only caps on the first letter of each name. Tanner demanded that his name be all caps and the announcers yell while calling his tricks. Mtn dew who's already angered parents by getting their kids hyper as fuck, decided the potential aftermath of kids dewed out posting in only caps and screaming at their parents wasn't worth the hassle.

Mtn dew offered to put his name in all caps but refused to make the announcers scream. Tanner freaked out in large font caps and hasn't been seen since. The comp continue with the remaining riders choosing to allow their name to be spelled however the fuck and not really caring what the announcers said.
 
13974894:hootsquad said:
what would you consider progress then? or how would you describe the changes in tricks being done over the last 10 years?
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I think the people who are really pushing the sport forward are the ones who are creating totally new categories of tricks and gear, not the ones adding 180 degrees of spin to an existing trick. I'm talking about people who helped pioneer things like switch big mountain freeride (Candide), off-axis spins (Mike Douglas), rocker (McConkey), and even butters (who invented butters?). IDK what's new in the world of rail tricks bc I don't really follow it-- the tricks are probably harder than they used to be-- but are they fundamentally different than their predecessor tricks? I'm interested in "the next big thing," not "the next incrementally more complicated to pull off." To each his own I guess.
 
13975197:LineSkier said:
I think the people who are really pushing the sport forward are the ones who are creating totally new categories of tricks and gear, not the ones adding 180 degrees of spin to an existing trick. I'm talking about people who helped pioneer things like switch big mountain freeride (Candide), off-axis spins (Mike Douglas), rocker (McConkey), and even butters (who invented butters?). IDK what's new in the world of rail tricks bc I don't really follow it-- the tricks are probably harder than they used to be-- but are they fundamentally different than their predecessor tricks? I'm interested in "the next big thing," not "the next incrementally more complicated to pull off." To each his own I guess.
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Sounds like you're not actually interested in progression of competition skiing then
 
13975260:ddemille1 said:
Sounds like you're not actually interested in progression of competition skiing then
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was talking to a buddy last night about the progression of comp skiing, he came up with the consensus that its hit a plateau. There's so many more people nowadays that can go big and they can all pretty much do the same thing, it just comes down to being watered down and which guy doesn't fuck up and crash. Back in the day Dumont and Wallisch were pioneering the sport and pushing it to new levels with tricks that nobody has done or could even fathom doing. Ultimately that part of comp skiing has vanished and so has my interest in watching comps. Not dissing comp skiers whatsoever cause fuck I can't fathom doing triple corks and shit, but since I'm a viewer and ultimately comps are for entertainment my ultimate question is how do we get that excitement of the unknown back into comp skiing? ( I also will add having Henrik in comp skiing is great for the sport )

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13975265:username_copied said:
was talking to a buddy last night about the progression of comp skiing, he came up with the consensus that its hit a plateau. There's so many more people nowadays that can go big and they can all pretty much do the same thing, it just comes down to being watered down and which guy doesn't fuck up and crash. Back in the day Dumont and Wallisch were pioneering the sport and pushing it to new levels with tricks that nobody has done or could even fathom doing. Ultimately that part of comp skiing has vanished and so has my interest in watching comps. Not dissing comp skiers whatsoever cause fuck I can't fathom doing triple corks and shit, but since I'm a viewer and ultimately comps are for entertainment my ultimate question is how do we get that excitement of the unknown back into comp skiing? ( I also will add having Henrik in comp skiing is great for the sport )

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they can all do pretty much the same stuff but what i like to watch is the little differences in how they each do those tricks. Like I'm sure most of us (myself included) could tell you who was dropping just based on how they grab or their particular axis even if everyone was skiing in an all black fit and skis that made everyone look exactly the same
 
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